{"id":12061,"date":"2018-11-19T21:51:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T02:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=12061"},"modified":"2018-11-19T21:51:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T02:51:01","slug":"last-week-tonight-season-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/last-week-tonight-season-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Week Tonight (season 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Oh, I&#8217;m sorry, you thought maybe Trump would not pop up in this story? Think again. He is truly the Forrest Gump of human misery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last Week Tonight<\/strong> season 5, aired in 2018<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what John talked about this year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>immigration courts<\/li>\n<li>the Iran Deal<\/li>\n<li>rehab<\/li>\n<li>guardianship<\/li>\n<li>China<\/li>\n<li>gene editing<\/li>\n<li>workplace sexual harassment, including an interview with Anita Hill<\/li>\n<li>district attorneys<\/li>\n<li>astroturfing<\/li>\n<li>trade<\/li>\n<li>Facebook<\/li>\n<li>Saudi Arabia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In his last show of the season, John talked about authoritarianism. Pointing out that authoritarianism has been on the rise in various parts of the world, he broke it down into 3 components:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>projecting strength<\/li>\n<li>demonizing enemies<\/li>\n<li>dismantling institutions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I previously reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/last-week-tonight-season-4\/\">season 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Oh, I&#8217;m sorry, you thought maybe Trump would not pop up in this story? Think again. He is truly the Forrest Gump of human misery.&#8221; Last Week Tonight season 5, aired in 2018 Here&#8217;s what John talked about this year: immigration courts the Iran Deal rehab guardianship China gene editing workplace sexual harassment, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[71,5,11],"class_list":["post-12061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-comedy-news","tag-review","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12061"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13311,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12061\/revisions\/13311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}